I don't know if it's a question of overconfidence in computers, a dumbass move by Hasbro to save money, a decision by WotC to skimp on an event that they're washing their hands of next year, or simply bald-faced incompetence, but preregistration for this year's GenCon sucks.

I've been to GenCon three times, and I'm looking forward to this year's trip, which marks the last time that the con will be held in Milwaukee before being moved (at least for the next few years) to Indianapolis.

The net's a big place. Watson helps make it smaller. Produced by a California-based company called Karelia, Waston is a sort of specialized search engine for the Mac OS X operating system that offers 16 tools designed to provide a simpler, more productive interface for the immense treasure trove (and accompanying wasteland) that is the Internet.

A good friend of mine is getting married on Sunday. He and his wife-to-be are registered as Sears, and I need to know what's left on the registry. So being the techno-geek I am, I figured I'd jump on to the Sears web site and see what my friends would like.

Why deep linking is a good thing -- and why corporations who fight it are idiots.